Sam Koch

When Jerry Rosburg joined coach John Harbaugh and the Ravens in 2008 as special teams coordinator, he already knew he had a reliable kicker in Matt Stover. The greater mystery to Rosburg was Sam Koch, the club's punter who had just wrapped up his second season.

"When I arrived, Sam was doing one thing with the ball," Rosburg recalled. "He was punting in one direction, and he really had just that one skill. He couldn't punt left, he couldn't punt right, but he was very powerful and athletic and all of the things that we see all of the time."

The year before Rosburg's arrival, Koch had posted his lowest career net average and his fewest number of punts inside...

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